Two volcanoes erupt in Indonesia

Indonesia issued a warning to international and domestic flights to avoid air routes near Mount Sinabung and Mount Merapi, both of which erupted on Monday

Indonesia issued a warning to international and domestic flights to avoid air routes near Mount Sinabung and Mount Merapi, both of which erupted on Monday, officials said.

The 2,475-metre-high Mount Sinabung, located in North Sumatra province, erupted Monday morning, shooting a column of ash about 8,000 metres high, the biggest eruption since the volcano first rumbled back to life in September after being dormant for three years, Xinhua quoted Agus Budianto, head of volcano observation at the country’s volcanology agency, as saying.

“This is the biggest eruption in vertical since September,” Agus Budianto told Xinhua.